A Week is a Long Time! Part 1

Hello again everyone,
I'm back from my holiday in Cyprus and boy did I miss the best premier league game in a while!

The first I heard about the City vs United score was in a local Cypriot Kiosk where they had some English papers printed. When I saw the back pages I, like anyone for that matter was gobsmacked. United 1-6 City. Must've been a misprint surely.

But as this result sinked in you get the sense that the winds of change really are blowing. Sir Alex Ferguson obviously knows this after calling that result his worst day in football. The toughest challenge of his managerial career is upon him and it is one he cannot afford to fail in simply because it is for the pride of Manchester.

City now seem to have a stronger squad and seem to be playing with more confidence. The pride of the City shirt has returned and the players with the egos are starting to do what's vest for the team and not themselves Balotelli is completely bonkers but at least his anitics (and fireworks) are away from the pitch at the moment. Although you sense it's only a matter of time before he does an Ashley Cole and shoots an academy member with an air rifle during training!

Of course United know a thing or two about winning title races and it is certainly not over yet. But reading the match report for the game made it feel like a definitive moment and that this might well be the time for City to make the transition from noisy neighbours to the best club team in England.

Moving on then to Arsenal. Crisis, what crisis? 5-3 win over Chelsea, 1/4 finals of Carling Cup going well in the Champions League couple of points behind Liverpool and Spurs in the League, it's all coming back together for Arsene Wengers Men, not to mention Robin Van Persie who is in the form of his life which is almost single handedly thrusting Arsenal up the table. A few weeks ago we were writing them off not they have turned the battle for fourth place into a 3 way battle (Sorry Newcastle it's not happening although stranger things have happened) So for Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal it's game on my friends game on!

Finally a quick word on the 2 racism rows going on. We should all put club allegiances aside and hope the book is thrown at John Terry and Luis Suarez if they did make racist remarks towards Anton Ferdinand and Patrice Evra respectively. We should also hope that the book is thrown at Ferdinand and Evra if they are found to be lying about these most serious of allegations (I believe Evra is but hey I'm no professional)

Thanks for reading, stay tuned in the next couple of hours as I shall have another blog up on the political events of the past week. Lib Dem rant anyone?

So until then the Outsider is out! :)